In The Kingdom of This World (1949), Alejo Carpentier, through ‘lo real maravilloso’ uses characters like Mackandal, Bouckman, and Ti Noel to confront whiteness and modernity, which have delegitimized and killed other living forms of knowledge linked to nature. ‘Lo real maravilloso’ is not only a literary act but also an ecological and political one for Latin America, as evidenced in the Haitian Revolution, driven by African knowledge fused with the territory of the Taínos, the Caribbean, and not as an inspiration from the French Revolution.